Food Technology looks at food preparation and processing, safety practices, food properties, ingredients used in food preparation, methods used and areas such as preparation in alternate settings and packaging. It has an Australian emphasis. Practical experience [obviously not included here] forms a significant component of this study.

This page accesses information on all the above areas. It includes portals and sites for specific resources, courses, programs covering Australian cooking, chefs, cooking tools and tutorials, even vegetarian information.

Information regarding Nutrition and Recipes is found on these pages, while information regarding Home Economics is found on the General Technology Information page.

If you are aware of other suitable areas or quality resources - tutorials, links, courses, data, help us improve this page by notifying the webmasters.

General Information

Australian Foods & Cooking

• Aussie Cooking
  Lots of recipes but other material as well including terminology, substitutes, more.
• Australian Bush Food Forum
  Forum, gallery, blogs, Links, FAQs, more. Also information on Native medicines.
• Australian Bushfoods Magazine
  News, recipes, resources, Indigenous, forum, archive, more.
• Australian Cuisine
  background, breakfast, dinner, take-away food, iconic Australian foods, seafood, references, links. From Wikipedia.
• Australian Food and Drink
  Australia.gov.au. Aboriginal food sources, food for Australia’s early settlers, food for Australia’s explorers, multicultural influences, Bush Tucker, links, more.
• Australian Food Blogs
  General listing and by state. Enough to cover all areas.
• Australian Food TV
  ‘The best of Australian cooking shows, recipes, segment about Australian food, what makes it different’. You need to be able to access Joost to watch these. One is Dining Downunder.
• Bush Food Bibliography
  Part of a larger bibliography. Australian National Botanic Gardens.
• Bush Food [Bush Tucker]
  From Indigenous Australia. Brief article with some examples.
• Bush Tucker Plants
  Bush Food, Australian Native Food Plants, What native plants are edible, how they were used by Indigenous people and early settlers, as well as the present. Bibliography, information on traditional cooking, links.
• Cherikoff Australian Ingredients
  Information for chefs, recipes, glossary, links, more.
• CSIRO Food
  Food and Nutritional Services, healthy foods, food quality and safety, seafood, food processing, more.
• How to Eat Australia
  ‘This site contains information on finding edibles in the wild, planting those edibles in a domestic setting, eating those edibles, where to find other sources of Australian edibles’. Check their Resources page for ‘Resources relevant to the whole native produce concept and not related to the ideas already covered in other pages’.
• Stoned Crow’s Great Australian BBQ
  Irreverent look at how to run a great barbecue [designed for backpackers !].

Chefs

• Blanc, Raymond
  While there is a fair level of commercialism, there are recipes and other cooking matters.
• Chefs Australia
  Watch mini-videos of Australian chefs cooking Australian foods and meals. You need to subscribe to YouTube to access these.
• Delia Online
  Recipes, ingredients, cooking school, search engine allows you to enter ingredients then find a recipe, wine, general foods, other household goods, etc.. Techniques, questions, equipment, what’s in season [UK though], more.
• Dupleix, Jill
  Advice and recipes from a young Australian chef now working in Europe, Contact her via the site. Have restaurant reviews if going to England.
• Lawson, Nigella
  Official site of The Domestic Goddess of British television. Her, her books, recipes, news, the living kitchen, more.
• Mietta’s - Great Australian Chefs
  Chefs and their work, from Tony Bilson to Jaques Reymond. Browse through restaurant guides, more.
• Solomon, Charmaine
  ‘Internationally acclaimed best selling cookery author Charmaine Solomon invites you into her virtual kitchen. Known and loved throughout Australia for magazine and newspaper columns, TV appearances and cookery demonstrations and classes over the decades, the rest of the world is getting to know and love her for her cookery books’.

Cooking Blogs

• Food Blog Search
  ‘Search for recipes in more than 3 000 fabulous food blogs !’
• Photograzing
  A blog full of recipes. Select and click on the image, then follow the instructions.
• Tastespotting
  Operates in the same fashion as the Photograzing Blog above.

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Cooking Tools

Cooking Courses

Many places run cooking courses for those interested. Some are listed below. Check times and places.

• CookandStay
  Find cooking classes around Australia catering for many styles, different periods, all levels of proficiency. Good starting point.
• Sydney Fish Markets

Cooking Tools

Cook Books & Texts

• Australian Women’s Weekly Cookbooks
  ‘Standard cookbooks from The Australian Women’s Weekly are available in a comprehensive range of titles. Cuisines from around the globe, books with a focus on health and dietary issues, those that feature recipes based on a common ingredient, every other subject imaginable’. Also access their Mini and Maxi Cookbooks from the same site.
• Boomerang Books
  Grouped under topic headings from General Cookery to Preserving & Freezing.
• Cookbooks.com.au
  Multiple categories, discounts to club members, more.
• Cooking-With-Us
  ‘Come and find several Free E-books related to cooking that you may take and download for Free’.
• Cook’s Tools
  Glossary, cooking terms, substitutions, liquid & solid measurements, temperature conversion, can sizes, more.
• Free Cookbooks
  If you are looking for cookbooks from past years then this is definitely the site. There is a good selection from back into the 19^th century. These are both general and from specific areas and styles.
• Free-Ebooks-Canada
  A selection of Free ebooks in PDF format for you to download.
• HealthRecipes Cook Books
  A selection of annotated links to PDF format cook books that are all Free.
• MemoWare
  A listing of books available in different formats, many for PDAs. Each is rated up to 5 stars.
• The Cook’s Thesaurus
  Information and visuals for thousands of ingredients, tools for the kitchen. Items broken into categories for easier access.
• The Food Lover’s Companion
  ‘Know saté from sauté, semifreddo from spoom [a type of sherbet] ? Search our dictionary of more than 4 000 food terms and you’ll never have to eat your words. Just type the word or phrase you’re looking for in the box’.
• The Food Lovers’ Cookbook Collection
  ‘Assembled to help guide you through the maze of wonderful food writing that is now flooding the market. Some is recent writing, some almost two hundred years old’.
• Vegan Cookbooks
  Two cook books are offered, both in PDF format. Details of both are provided for you to read before downloading.
• Witguides
  A selection of more than 30 books, all in PDF format. Brief details are supplied to help you decide on suitability.

Cooking Techniques

• A Guide to Cooking Techniques
  ‘Aimed to give you explanations and tips on the most commonly used cooking techniques. Boiling and blanching to whipping, stewing, grilling, sauté, freezing, roasting, poaching, more. Whether you are a novice in the kitchen or an experienced cook, this guide will be useful, because learning never stops’. Listed alphabetically.
• Cathy’s Kitchen
  Articles, Q & A, Recipes, more.
• Cooking 101
  ‘Cooking and baking, like any other discipline, have their own language and specific rules. You need to know how to read a recipe, how to measure, doneness tests, steps to take when cooking chicken under the broiler, baking chocolate cakes’. About.com.
• Cooking Techniques [Reluctant Gourmet]
  ‘Once you learn how to handle these fundamental techniques, you will be able to handle most recipes. Cooking is not just about recipes, it is about how to take ingredients and make them taste as good as possible’.

Videos

• Best Cooking Videos on The Net
  Chefs, videos, recipes, techniques.
• Cooking Videos [Taste of Home]
  ‘Learn new cooking tips and techniques with hundreds of how-to cooking videos’. 15 separate areas covered.
• Food Wishes Video Recipes
  Videos which include a range of unusual recipes.
• StartCooking.com
  ‘We built startcooking.com just for you. You’ll learn how to make quick and tasty meals, plus learn the basic cooking skills you’ll need’.

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General Sites

• 30 Day Gourmet’s Freezer Cooking Online Manual
  If you are into pre-preparation and freezing, even to lunches for children, then you need to check this site. While commercial, it provides information and ideas.
• BBC - Food
  Well known chefs can be accessed, there are recipes, special features, BBC programs, Ingredients glossary, Kid’s section, Ask a Chef, healthy eating, Back to Basics, Cooking Techniques videos, more. BBC site.
  Brilliant !
• BBC GCSE Bitesize
  A series of topics in the Food Technology area. For senior students. Each topic has both revision and a test.
• BUBL Link
  Links under a variety of headings. Each has a summary covering where based, major emphasis, author, Dewey , resource type. Each section has links, e.g. food - allergies, food safety, nutrition. Major groups : general resources, drinks, food, cooking. Other Technology related information available through this entry point e.g. furnishings.
• CAN
  Click on Education in the left menu for information about the history of canning, can manufacture, how food is canned, health & nutrition, quality assurance, recycling.
• Cold Storage Chart
  Find how long you can keep a range of foods safely under refrigeration or by freezing them. This is part of a Fact Sheet on Basics for Handling Food Safely.
• Cooking Light
  Recipes, Cooking 101, menus, magazine, more. All for healthy cooking.
• Cook It Quick
  ‘We invite you to partake of the following Menu Items to help you prepare healthy foods in a hurry. Consider this a buffet : Help yourself as desired’. Healthy food in a flash.
• Culinary Media Network
  ‘We travel the planet exploring culture, history and tradition via the plate to learn the passion behind the flavours that excite us. Our audio & video programs, recipes, articles and interviews showcase the best of what we’ve discovered in an unending quest to fulfil our food desires’. Now entitled The Gilded Fork, home of ….
• Department of Food Science & Technology
  University of NSW. Linked to Food Science Programs and Courses.
• Edible Insects
  When everything else fails, this is what is left. Surprisingly, some may not be as bad as they sound.
• Food Forum
  ‘Food is everybody’s business and deserves a key position in every young person’s education. The links between food, diet, health and well-being are indisputable. FoodForum’s aim is also to encourage critical users and consumers of food’. UK based. Specific areas that could be of value include :

• Curriculum Matters
  ‘This section provides guidance on teaching and learning principles, working within a national curriculum framework, making curriculum links, planning a successful food curriculum, assessing achievement and monitoring the quality of teaching and learning’. Includes templates and resources.
• Food In-sites
  ‘Food in-sites has been developed to give you the low-down on what else is out there on the web. We do the slog for you by evaluating food sites and giving them a score so you don’t waste your time’ Listed alphabetically.
• The F-Files
  ‘The F-files provide a bank of teaching and learning materials. These are produced as case studies and provide actual examples from the food industry’.

• Food Science Australia
  CSIRO and AFISC. Newsletter, factsheets, consumer information leaflets, calendar of food events, other areas related to food, scientific groups.
• Food Technology
  ‘The following resources have been developed to support Stage 5 Food Technology’. Digital Education Revolution, Department of Education & Training, NSW.
• Home Economics Victoria
  Curriculum information, Education Projects, Publications, Events Calendar, Workshops & Courses, more.
• Low-Budget Meals Online
  Recipes, Reviews, Cooking Tips. ‘Dedicated to those who would like to eat like king but have the budget of a starving student’. Recipes, FAQs, tips.
• Safety Advice for Technology Teachers
  These include the Food Technology area though some topics relate to multiple/other Technology areas. These are from NSW, but would be similar in other states/territories. Specific pages include :

• Advice for Technology Teachers
• DET Safety Resources
• FAQs - Food Technology
• Learning to Work Safely : Student Activities

• SBS Food
  Programs, recipes, blogs, videos, Ask The Chef, suppliers, in season foods, food art, more.
• Science of Cooking
  Links cooking and science. Covers nutrition as well.
• Shahiya.com
  ‘Interactive Arabic and English food site with recipes from the Arab world, restaurants in Arab cities, and nutritional advice from Carole Hani [Registered Dietitian]. Find and share what you are looking for on Shahiya.com’.
• Spices Exhibit
  Background information about a spices used in cooking and for medicinal purposes. In addition to individual information there is information on general topics of interest related to spices and their different uses.
• Taste
  While dominantly a recipe collection, there is other information including news, features, glossary, forums, … .
• The Cook and the Chef
  ‘Come with Maggie and Simon on their adventure through Australian culinary history. He might be a chef and she might insist on calling herself a cook, but together they are a celebration of Australian food’.
• The Natural Kitchen
  Look to use natural things rather than something that has been processed beyond recognition.
• The Sweet Science of Chocolate
  Chocolate gets the science treatment. From history to nutrition.
• Top 50 Food Science Blogs
  ‘These blogs discuss more technical food issues from the culinary elite to the kitchen basics, giving you something to think about the next time you’re in your own kitchen laboratory’.

Vegetarian Cooking

• Vegetarian Food, Cooking, Books …
  Strongly committed to the world of vegetarianism but covers a broad range.
• Vegetarianism
  Lots of information about this way of eating and life.
• Vegetarian
  Site for both vegan and vegetarian cooking and way of life.
• VegWeb

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